[racket] We need volunteers to test WeScheme!

Hey, that's slick. I like how it links all of the parts of

(map cons 1 2 3 4)

with 

map: expects a list as 2nd argument, but given: 1; other arguments were: #<function:cons> 2 3 4

[I'm unsure if the colored formatting will show up on the list]

rac [Lion Safari]



On Aug 8, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:

> We have revamped the error reporting infrastructure in WeScheme.  In
> particular, we've [1] implemented the color-coding proposal proposed
> by Guillaume Marceau et al [2].  We are looking for volunteers to hit
> our test site and let us know if  they see strange output from the
> colored error highlighting.
> 
> Please visit:
> 
>    http://dyoo-test.appspot.com
> 
> and try snippets of code that should produce errors.
> 
> 
> For a few examples:
> 
>    (cond)
> 
>    ;;;
> 
>    (define (f x) (* x x))
>    (f)
>    (f 3 4 5)
> 
>    ;;;
>    (/ 1 2 3 (- 1 1))
> 
> 
> You should see colored highlighting for each one of these cases.  More
> generally:
> 
>    * The referents in syntax errors should color highlight where
> appropriate.  Clicking on the colored links should focus their
> location in the definitions window.
> 
>    * Certain runtime errors, such as procedure arity mismatch, should
> highlight the affected arguments at runtime.  Others include division
> by zero and other type error checks.
> 
> 
> We'd appreciate your feedback and bug reports!
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> [1] By "we", I mean the following excellent folks:
> 
>    * Michael Rowland
>    * Andrew Tian
>    * Daniel Kocoj
> 
> [2] http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/mfk-mind-lang-novice-inter-error-msg/
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